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NJDOT E-8A 4257 and GG1's 4872 and 4876 |
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With GG-1 4872 and others behind, CR-operated NJDOT E-8A 4257 (ex-PC, rebuilt by GE in 4/78) lines up with E-8A 4272 at the South Amboy engine terminal in July, 1978. The crew's Chevy Chevette and Olds Cutlass vehicles give a historical perspective. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1978 Upload Date: 5/6/2018 8:18:54 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Alan Page |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4257(E8A) NJDOT 4872(GG1) NJDOT 4257(E8A) NJDOT 4872(GG1) NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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359 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT GG1 4876 |
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CR-operated NJDOT GG-1 4876 rests with both pans up between sister units at the South Amboy engine terminal. After retirement from NJDOT in 1983, the GG-1 was donated to NRHS Washington, DC chapter. This GG-1 was famously known to have piloted No. 173, the "Federal Express," from Boston to Washington, DC on January 14, 1953. While approaching Union Station, brake loss of 13 of it's 16 cars made the train a runaway, causing 4876 to smash through the track bumper, the iron track gate, demolish the stationmaster's office, run out onto the concouse floor, and fall through the concrete floor to the basement below, along with two of it's steel passenger cars. After shipping to Altoona, 4876 was placed back in service just 10 months after the accident. A tribute to the amazing skill and determination of the Altoona shop crews. CR retired their freight fleet of GG-1's in 1979, but the NJDOT-contracted GG-1's 4872-4884 saw their operating days extended to the fall of 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1978 Upload Date: 5/6/2018 8:02:23 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Alan Page |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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212 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT GG1 4876 |
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NJDOT GG1 4876 waits for assignment in a line of former PRR GG1's at South Amboy. This same GG1 was the famous runaway that crashed through the concourse of Washington's Union Station in 1953, and was back on the rails 10 months later, rebuilt from 3 cutup sections by the Altoona shops. 4876 was one of the last remaining operating GG1's in October, 1983 when the final curtain fell by NJ Transit on the ageless electrics. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/1978 Upload Date: 10/10/2015 11:10:35 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Alan Page |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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682 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT 4876 |
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| Photo Date: |
12/17/1978 Upload Date: 7/14/2021 7:36:41 AM |
| Location: |
Elizabeth, NJ |
| Author: |
Rick Coles |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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166 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT 4876 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/17/1978 Upload Date: 7/14/2021 7:37:16 AM |
| Location: |
Elizabeth, NJ |
| Author: |
Rick Coles |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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177 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT 4876 |
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| Photo Date: |
1/1/1979 Upload Date: 3/15/2013 10:41:16 PM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside, NY |
| Author: |
Philip M. Goldstein |
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| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) |
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256 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJDOT GG1 4876 ready to head back to the engine terminal |
| Description: |
NJDOT GG1 4876 ready to head back to the engine terminal at South Amboy on July 10, 1981. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1981 Upload Date: 9/11/2016 7:57:18 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Alan Page |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4876(GG1) NJT 4876(GG1) |
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380 Comments: 4 |
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